This is a list of the works of Orson Scott Card. This list does not include criticisms, reviews, or related material written by Card. Orson Scott Card is the author of The Ender's Game and Homecoming Saga among many other works.
Published in the January 1991 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact. Reprinted as parts of Chapters 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11 of Xenocide. It also includes about 20 paragraphs recounting Jane's story from Speaker for the Dead that are not republished anywhere else.
Published online in the "Uncle Orson on the Fly" blog. Later included in Ender's Way, a limited-edition collection of Ender-related short stories (2021)
"Messenger"
2018
Shadow Saga
Short story
Published online in the "Uncle Orson on the Fly" blog. Later included in Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers anthology (2019)
Mayflower was a projected trilogy begun in 1994 by Orson Scott Card and Kathryn H. Kidd, but only one book in the trilogy was published. Kidd died in 2015.[18]
About the Book of Mormon character Alma. Performed at Brigham Young University Margetts Arena Theatre
In Flight
1970
Play
Performed at Brigham Young University Margetts Arena Theatre
Across Five Summers
1971
Play
Performed at Brigham Young University Theatre Workshop
Stone Tables
1971
Musical play
About Moses. Music by Robert Stoddard. Performed at Brigham Young University Pardoe Drama Theatre in 1971, Utah Valley Repertory Theatre Company in 1975, again at Brigham Young University Pardoe Drama Theatre in 1981, and Southern Virginia University in 2008. Novelized as Stone Tables by Card in 1997.
Father, Mother, Mother, and Mom
1974
Musical play
About pioneer-era Mormon polygamy. Music by Robbert Stoddard. Written in 1971, it had a staged reading at Brigham Young University, but administration rejected a full staging, apparently to avoid appearing to sanction modern polygamy. After some rewriting, Card staged a 1974 production at his own Utah Valley Repertory Theatre Company. There were also productions at the Green Briar Theatre in West Jordan in 1977. and Sundance in 1982. The script is found in Sunstone Magazine, 2.2, 1978.
Of Gideon
1974
Lyric Drama
Performed at Brigham Young University Margetts Arena Theatre
Liberty Jail
1975
Musical play
Music by C. Michael Perry. About Joseph Smith. Performed at the Utah Valley Repertory Theatre Company in 1975, Valley Center Theater in 1978, and Green Briar in 1979.
Abraham and Issac
1976
Opera
Scored by Murray Boren. Performed at Brigham Young University.
Rag Mission
1977
Play script
Mormon missionary story. Written under the pseudonym Brian Green. Appeared in the LDS magazine Ensign, July 1977.
Fresh Courage Take
1978
Play
About William Clayton. Performed at Green Briar.
Elders and Sisters
1979
Musical play
Based on a novel by Gladys Farmer. Music by Dallin Pack. Avenue Productions.
Wings
1982
Play
Partial production at Utah State Institute of Fine Arts.
Barefoot to Zion
1997
Musical
LDS Sesquicentennial Musical, about Mormon pioneers. Written with Kevin and Khaliel Kelly and music by Arlen Card. Card was brought in late in the process.
Card wrote the insults for the insult swordfighting section
Pen names[]
Over the years Orson Scott Card used at least seven pseudonyms. According to Card he used a pseudonym for "Gert Fram" because he already had three other works appearing in the same issue. He used the penname Byron Walley again in various other publications for LDS magazines such as the Friend and the New Era as well as the short story "Middle Woman" in Dragons of Darkness.[21] Card used the names Frederick Bliss and P.Q. Gump when he wrote an overview of Mormon playwrights for the Spring 1976 issue of Sunstone magazine. According to Card he used these pseudonyms because the article included a brief reference to himself and his play "Stone Tables".[21] He used the name Brian Green in the July 1977 fine arts issue of Ensign magazine. He used this name for his short play "The Rag Mission" because he had three other pieces appearing in the same issue.[21] Card used the name Noam D. Pellume for his short story "Damn Fine Novel" which appeared in the October 1989 issue of The Green Pages.[22]